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t. & i. [A. S. styrian to stir, to move; allied to Icel. styrr =stir, disturbance; Dut.storen = to disturb, to interrupt; Sw. stora; Ger. stören= to disturb; O. H. Ger. stoeren, stóren to scatter, to destroy, to disturb.] A. Transitive : 1. To move; to cause to move; to cause to change place in any way. "He could not stir his pettitoes." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, iv. 4. 2. To agitate; to cause the particles of, as of a liquid, to change places, by pa ing something through it; to disturb. "My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida, iii. 8. 3. To agitate; to bring into debate; to bring forward, to moot, to start. "Preserve the right of thy place, but stir not questions of jurisdiction." -Bacon . IMG:content-0326.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To move one's self; to change posture, pos i tion, or place; to go or pa from one place to another in any way. 2. To make a disturbing or agitating motion, as in liquid, by pa ing something through it. 3. To be in motion; not to be still; to bustle about. (Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet , iii. 1.) *4. To be roused; to be agitated. IMG:content-0327.png:[blocks in formation] Shakesp.: Coriolanus , iii. 1. 5. To be on foot; to exist, to occur, to happen. "No ill luck stirring But what lights on my shoulders." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , iii. 1. 6. To become the object of notice or conversa tion; to be on foot. 7. To be already out of bed in the morning. "You are early stirring." To stir up: Shakesp.: Richard III ., iii. 2. 1. To excite; to put or bring into action; to start. "I will stir up in England some black storm." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . II . , iii. 1. 2. To incite, to animate; to instigate by inflaming pa ions. "The words of Judas were very good, and able to stir them up to valor." -2 Maccabees xiv. 17. 3. To quicken, to enliven; to make more lively or vigorous. "The use of the pa ions is to stir up the mind and put it upon action."- Add is on. 4. To disturb; as, to stir up the sediments of a liquid. *stir, subst . [Icel. styrr =a disturbance, a stir.] [STIR, v .] 1. The state of being in motion or in action; agitation; tumult, bustle, noise. "There is no stir or walking in the streets." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, i. 3. 2. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous or seditious uproar. "What halloing and what stir is this to-day?" Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen, v. 4. 3. Agitation of thought; disturbance of mind, excitement. "This kind of writing makes an angry stir in the blood of men."-Brit. Quart. Review, lvii. 510 (1873.). stir, s. [See def.] Sir. (Scotch.) "I'm seeking for service, stir."- Scott: Old Mortality, ch. viii. stir-a-bout, subst . [Eng. stir , v., and about .] A dish composed of oatmeal and water boiled to a certain consistency, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a frying-pan.